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Math broken in beta labs: "Failed to Parse(PNG conversion failed,check for correct installation of Latex and dvipng (or dvips+gs+convert))"
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Description

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Steps to reproduce:

1.Open a page with VE
2.Add a formula from Insert>Formula
3.Insert \pi into the inspector

Observed Result:
An error shows up "Failed to Parse(PNG conversion failed,check for correct installation of Latex and dvipng (or dvips+gs+convert))"

See the screenshot attached.

Test Environment: http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/
Browser: Chrome Version 26.0.1410.65
OS: MAC OS X 10. 8. 5
Page:http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Jan_24th?veaction=edit


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

Attached:

Screen_Shot_2014-01-24_at_11.28.51_AM.png (269×879 px, 23 KB)

Details

Reference
bz60404

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:00 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz60404.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

This might just be math being broken on beta labs in general. If you save a page with wikitext <math>\pi</math>, does that work?

No it does not work that way too

(In reply to comment #2)

No it does not work that way too

OK, thanks. Moving bug to beta labs.

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 60486 ***